Motion Industries, a distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts and a provider of industrial technology solutions, signed a purchase agreement to acquire Allied Circuits, an electrical and automation firm. Located in Buffalo, N.Y., Allied Circuits designs, manufactures, and services industrial control panels, electro-mechanical assemblies, robotic automation and integrated solutions. The company, founded in 1987, serves customers in western and upstate New York and Ontario, Canada. End markets include aerospace, automotive, filtration, fluid systems and plumbing, food and beverage, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, process industries, semiconductor and water and wastewater facilities. The company will join Motion’s business unit, Motion Automation Intelligence (Motion Ai).
The addition of Allied Circuits will provide a workforce of skilled workers, ATEX certification capabilities and more than 20,000 square feet of production space to bolster Motion Ai’s presence in the area, expanding to more than 100,000 square feet of production space and 150 people.
“It’s a great match, including the business culture and core values, and we’ve very excited about our customers’ expanded access to even more products and services,” said Chris Scinta, partner at Allied Circuits. “Motion is an industry leader, and we are pleased to integrate employee talents and contribute to the company’s growth.”
“Our customers are growing and we’re committed to growing with them,” said James Howe, president of Motion. “By combining our engineering teams, we can leverage highly experienced technical resources needed to design, program and support increasing automation needs within the region. This strategic acquisition will create new opportunities for our customers, teammates and supplier partners.”
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.